Justakid

Good luck Melanie, get fixed and come back.....we all need you! Tell your Husband to get his camera work done! It's important and we will look for updates if from no one else then Ry having spoken to you or hubby!

WOW, three years, I'm so jealous! I got 4mths clean! You'll be fine, because there are people like me who need you to keep plugging along clean so we can follow!!!! Good luck and let us know!

Too cute, keep the pictures coming! Now the kids want to have baby kittys, I keep telling them that ours are fixed and we can't (yeah). They are too cute!

Many prayers on the way! We all need out special LC buddys to get through this, in addition to everyone here!

The Alimta has not caused nay hair lose on me like the the last treatment, EXCEPT my eyelashes! My eyes are the most perfect part of my body (and it's saying alot to give myself a complement) and my damn eye lashes are falling out! Go figure! l would almost rather be bald but with my long beautiful eyelashes. Oh well, I'm alive. We can find some tiny ones and use mascara when I get desperate!

I was very careful to follow the one hour before or two hours after measl sticker on the bottle which was hard because I graze when I eat, it's the best way to keep the nausea under control and now I'm use to it. Good luck!

Pat and Brian- You can do it, try to get some rest and drink lots of fluids!

Take a deep breath! Always get a 2nd opinion and ask the doc to go over the report with you. It's hard looking it up on the internet and trying to figure it out yourself. My last report I had the "nodules" the size of CM not MM, boy that made a difference! I obtained copies of all my med records since cancer, it's very hard to read without crying. It's hard to read about the surgey without getting emotional. But now I understand everything that has been done to me. Hang on! Come here for support. PM or email if you need me!

Bill that is awesome! Surgery was a lot easier for me then the radiation and the chemo! Suggestion- put your drainage box (the thing that your chest tube drains into) in a wheelchair and walk around the Nurses station as soon as you can. It beats carrying it and the box is below your heart where it's supposed to be! And you get your stregth back fast.

Have him go out tonight and pull a vampire on someone! Maybe he can boost platlets that way!

As usual I'm late! Can't we just put him in the hospital, do the chemo and handle each problem as it comes up till he gets through it? Is that totally stupid? Call me if you need me!

Oops, double posted!

I was told that you can go down to half of one lung and survive but will have major breathing problems. Perhaps that is why they feel they can not do chemo. Seek a 2nd opinion?

Melanie- We are here for you! BIG HUGS!

Pat- The only thing that was wrong with me when I was initially dx was was I needed to diet. I went through surgery, radiation, chemo and more chemo and was on the final leg believing that I was cured and within 4mths of treatment it's in both lungs. I DON'T BELIEVE IT! I still stink it's something else. BUT the doctors say we have to provide it. The additional stains and testing I had done from my initial surgery did confirm (again) that it is lung cancer. We can't get any samples of the new stuff, it's in bad places. They would have to stop my breathing to get a piece of it and don't want to do it. Have the pathology slides read by several people, have another bioipsy done if you want, I do understand your feeling though. PM me if you want to talk more!

WOW, I'm the poster child for side affects when it comes to treatment. Lots of people don't have radiation problems but I did from week one. Good luck!

Pam- I know that when I started to do the taxotere/taxol treatments with the carboplatin (after radiation) that the pain was so bad that I begged my husband to put me out of of my misery. Now that being said, once the chemo ended the pain slowly started to subside. I did not have a very good oncologist then and have since switched. The pain felt like it was down in the bone marrow and just radiated out, my hair even hurt to touch. There is a way to get the pain under control, just got to figure out the right combo of drugs. But know that you are not alone when it comes to her pain. Nurotin (sp?) helped me (it's like a nerve pain drug) when it was taken with percocet, but it's very easy to over dose on it. Good luck!

I did the same thing. When I had surgery I had hair all the way down my back, I had it cut up to my ears in anticipation of it all falling out. Plus I didn't want my 8yr old to freak when it went from real long to bald (figured stages were better) Once the hair started to come out in handfuls (all over!), we shaved my head to the Marine do.......but it still kept coming. We pulled out the razor. I did develop a rash all over my scalp. I talked to my (worthless Oncologist at the time - I've changed Docs since then) and she said don't shave your head again (thank for the help). Anyway, I used a cortisone cream and it cleared up. Luckily I didn't have to shave it again.

I LOVE the prednisone beast!

I decided who I look like yesterday when we were driving in the car, I looked over in the side mirror and .....................I'm Marlon Brando with thicker darker hair!! hahaha Anyone see the remake of the Island of Doctor Marao (sp?), it's me and I don't mean that young tiny looking tiger girl who danced all around. I'm talking the fat guy in the Moomoo! I love Prednisone!

Frank- Give us an update (or did I miss it?) How you feeling, how is the stint in the windpipe? etc, etc

TAnn- HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Every birthday seems to be more special now!!!!! Do something fun and relaxing!

Your right, I don't think we get all the answers/information either! We gotta stick together and pray for a cure in OUR lifetime!

I like the new cancer staging............we can call it Stage 3BC (stage 3 Beth's cancer). Kings Dominion was fun today and couldn;t have asked for better weather. I was tired BUT am still up at 1:14am Est time, so how tired could I be. Those damn middle of the night blahs. Kinda getting exciting about Thanksgiving. I'm the anal type that makes lists of what to pack and logs of car rental expenses, etc (no me be anal?!), I'm ready to start my lists already, 8mths out. Boy am I a control freak! Nigt everyone.....................oh yeah I decided I looked like Marlon Brando cause of the steriods!

I have taken a more whimpy way out, I have an Advanced Directive that names both my Husband and Mother, I know that these decisions can not be made by my husband alone, he couldn't do it. The only instructions I left was that I didn't want to know it was coming and I didn't want to feel it. The rest is up to them, if they want to try a ventailor to see if there was improvement, I better be inconscience. I feel sorry for them having to make those decisions. I did speak with my mom abou the earlier post from Sharon (my Mom has a medical background) and explain the whole morphine thing to me. Sharon did not kill he father.....LC did! Life is hard and I am finding that your own death is just as difficult should you choose to get involved.